Speaker 1: Hey there. Before we jump into the amazing message today,
Speaker 1: we wanted to let you know about our upcoming tour,
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Speaker 1: We're going to have an amazing time in the presence
Speaker 1: of God. Every single time we gather, He's faithful to
Speaker 1: meet with us and do something new and fresh in
Speaker 1: our hearts. So we hope you'll join us. Yes, we're
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Speaker 1: at Elevation Worship dot com. We'll see see. What I
Speaker 1: want to do with the time that I have with
Speaker 1: you today, which I take very seriously, is continue in
Speaker 1: the conversation that we started last week. All right, I
Speaker 1: want to continue on this path that we only really
Speaker 1: took a few steps last week down this path. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you there's so much to this that God
Speaker 1: is showing me. And don't worry. If you weren't here
Speaker 1: last week, you're like, oh no, now I'm missing out.
Speaker 1: I won't know what you're talking about. You will, You'll
Speaker 1: pick right up. Because I want to go into a
Speaker 1: very familiar scripture today, and I thank you worship team.
Speaker 1: Y'all can be seated. I want to go to John
Speaker 1: chapter four. Yeah, y'all were clapping, y'all like to worship now?
Speaker 1: Sitting down? All right, thanks y'all. I want to go
Speaker 1: to John chapter four, sharing with you some thoughts on
Speaker 1: the hard work of happiness. On the hard work of happiness.
Speaker 1: And I think I told you last week that this
Speaker 1: came to me while I was riding a bike. But then,
Speaker 1: you know, you look all over the Bible and you
Speaker 1: just see. Now, not all of my sermons start from
Speaker 1: a Bible passage. And I should be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I think that the best sermons they feel more like
Speaker 1: real life, not just like the library. So we don't
Speaker 1: just want to approach things from an intellectual point of view.
Speaker 1: Some people think that something is more spiritual if it's
Speaker 1: more intellectual. I say, oh, that was really deep. What
Speaker 1: you said, well, what does it mean? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it was deep. How do you know? Because I
Speaker 1: didn't understand it. It was deep. We used to have
Speaker 1: a staff member who would get up on stage, and
Speaker 1: Holly said he had the spiritual gift of confusing her.
Speaker 1: She said, when he talks, he always makes me think
Speaker 1: that I don't get it. I don't really think he
Speaker 1: gets it. So I think by him making me not
Speaker 1: get it and making me think that he's got something
Speaker 1: deep to say, he circumvinced the fact that he didn't
Speaker 1: study by just saying stuff that sounds so abstract that
Speaker 1: I think, well, I guess that's why I made on
Speaker 1: my sat because I don't understand this. But in the scripture,
Speaker 1: in John chapter four, there's a passage a story that
Speaker 1: is well loved and well worn, and as familiar as
Speaker 1: it is, I want us to get into it today.
Speaker 1: And there's something that the Lord is speaking on the
Speaker 1: subject of the hard work of happiness. And before I
Speaker 1: read you my scripture, let me tell you the quote
Speaker 1: that actually gave me that phrase. Okay, it's not a
Speaker 1: Bible verse that says the hard work of happiness. I
Speaker 1: was watching a documentary and that quote came up. The
Speaker 1: person said, it's something that took me to age seventy
Speaker 1: to realize that happiness is really hard work. And me
Speaker 1: and Holly were watching the same movie at the same time,
Speaker 1: and I looked over at her, and she didn't look
Speaker 1: like it really registered at all at a deep level,
Speaker 1: because like I told you last week, she's naturally happy.
Speaker 1: I don't mean she doesn't work hard at it. She
Speaker 1: tries not to complain, she serves others, she does a
Speaker 1: lot of habits that make her happy. But she's more
Speaker 1: hardwired for happiness than me. I figured that out in
Speaker 1: our marriage. One marriage, somebody said in every marriage there's
Speaker 1: the crazy one. Make sure that you're the crazy one
Speaker 1: in the relationship before you get married, and go easier
Speaker 1: for you. And when Holly teaches her study on marriage,
Speaker 1: missus better half becoming this is better half. She's not
Speaker 1: bragging like, oh, I'm the better half, but I certainly
Speaker 1: would say that of her. And in my life it's
Speaker 1: been it's been hard work to actually be happy, and
Speaker 1: hard work I'm good at, and happiness not so much.
Speaker 1: And you know, after I'd preached that last week, I
Speaker 1: went home and said, did they hear what I said?
Speaker 1: What I was trying to say, It's hard to know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a lot of times I think my sermons are
Speaker 1: a lot deeper than you think they are. Like I'll
Speaker 1: preach a whole sermon with all these Greek words or
Speaker 1: you know, these insights and the Old Testament and the
Speaker 1: New Testament, and then the people will come up to
Speaker 1: me and say, that was a funny story about the
Speaker 1: toilet getting clogged up there at the end. That was good.
Speaker 1: I like that. One time I preached on Ruth and
Speaker 1: Boaz and Man. I studied the whole Testament to preach
Speaker 1: that message, and they said, it's good. You're finally getting
Speaker 1: the kids a dog. Take's the one thing you heard,
Speaker 1: you know, is right there on the surface. So all
Speaker 1: that being said as a setup. The person who said
Speaker 1: that in the documentary was Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys.
Speaker 1: I defy you to name me a happier sounding band
Speaker 1: than the Beach Boys. That was the sound of my childhood.
Speaker 1: This is literally the man that was singing, We'll have fun, fun,
Speaker 1: fun till her daddy took the Ta bird away. And
Speaker 1: yet his his struggles are well documented now with mental
Speaker 1: illness and drug abuse, and he said something that was quoted.
Speaker 1: You know, it took me seventy years. He sold one
Speaker 1: hundred million albums The Beach Boys have He wrote what
Speaker 1: Paul McCartney said is the greatest song ever written. God
Speaker 1: only knows what I'd be without you. He wrote Good
Speaker 1: Vibrations for Pete's sake. And to know that as he
Speaker 1: was creating these masterpieces of music, that he was saying
Speaker 1: things like it was three weeks in my bed wondering
Speaker 1: if I wanted to live now. Apart from analyzing that
Speaker 1: specific situation, I just want to take that idea and
Speaker 1: talk to you about it for a few minutes. That
Speaker 1: it is possible for you to make happy music and
Speaker 1: have a troubled mind. That it is possible for you
Speaker 1: to have memorized scripture and have a troubled soul. That
Speaker 1: it is possible for you to be sober, you know,
Speaker 1: free from some substances that you used to struggle with.
Speaker 1: But yet deep down, and this is what I want
Speaker 1: to talk about a little deeper down today. From John
Speaker 1: chapter four, Do we really experience what Jesus came to
Speaker 1: give us? Do we really And to look at that
Speaker 1: we're going to go into John chapter four. This story
Speaker 1: is about I'm testing y'all out to see how much
Speaker 1: I need to cover. Sounds like I need to go
Speaker 1: to the very beginning today. Okay, good, good, good good.
Speaker 1: That lets me know. This is what y'all one of
Speaker 1: the most famous Bible stories, the woman at the Well,
Speaker 1: the woman in Samaria at the well that Jesus stopped
Speaker 1: to talk to and changed her life. And so where
Speaker 1: I want to start today is me a little different
Speaker 1: than where we end up. So just flow with me,
Speaker 1: Flow with me, Flow with the preacher. Would you please
Speaker 1: flow with the preacher. Touch and never say flow with
Speaker 1: the preacher. Touch your neighbor and say flow with the preacher.
Speaker 1: There you go, John chapter four, Verse one. Now Jesus
Speaker 1: learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining
Speaker 1: and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it
Speaker 1: was not Jesus who baptized but his disciples. So he
Speaker 1: left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Now
Speaker 1: he had to go through Samaria, so he came to
Speaker 1: a town in Samaria called Psykar, near the plot of
Speaker 1: Brown Jacob had given to his son Joseph Jacob's well
Speaker 1: was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey,
Speaker 1: sat down by the well. It was about noon when
Speaker 1: a Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her,
Speaker 1: will you give me a drink? His disciples had gone
Speaker 1: into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said
Speaker 1: to him, you are a Jew and I am a
Speaker 1: Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?
Speaker 1: For Jews to not associate with Samaritans. And Jesus answered her,
Speaker 1: if you knew the gift of God and who it
Speaker 1: is to ask you for a drink, you lose the
Speaker 1: attitude and ask him, and he would have given you
Speaker 1: living water. Sir. The woman said, you have nothing to
Speaker 1: draw with, and the well is deep. Where can you
Speaker 1: get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob,
Speaker 1: who gave us the well and drank from it himself.
Speaker 1: He didn't need a woman to give him a jar,
Speaker 1: He had his own jar. Are you greater than Jacob?
Speaker 1: As did also his sons in livestock? And Jesus answer you, ready,
Speaker 1: this is deep. The scripture is deep. Everyone who drinks
Speaker 1: this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks. The
Speaker 1: water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water
Speaker 1: I give them will become in them a spring of
Speaker 1: water welling up to eternal life. The woman said to him,
Speaker 1: this is forty two verses, y'all, I'm only going to
Speaker 1: read the first twenty four. The woman said to him, Sir,
Speaker 1: give me this water so that I won't get thirsty
Speaker 1: and have to keep coming here to draw water. And
Speaker 1: he told her, go call your husband and come back.
Speaker 1: I have no husband, she replied. Jesus said to her,
Speaker 1: you were right when you say you have no husband.
Speaker 1: Fact is you've had five husbands. The man you now
Speaker 1: have is not your husband. What you've said is quite true.
Speaker 1: Get a little closer now, sir, The woman said, I
Speaker 1: can see that you are a prophet. You think our
Speaker 1: ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that
Speaker 1: the place we must worship is in Jerusalem. Woman, Jesus replied,
Speaker 1: believe me, a time is coming when you will worship
Speaker 1: the Father, neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You
Speaker 1: Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what
Speaker 1: we do know. For salvation is from the Jews. Yet
Speaker 1: a time is coming and has now come, when the
Speaker 1: true worshippers will worship the Father in the spirit and
Speaker 1: in truth. For they are the kind of worshippers seeks
Speaker 1: God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the
Speaker 1: spirit and in truth. Let's stop there. The subject for
Speaker 1: today is deeper than you think, deeper than you think.
Speaker 1: It's deeper than you think. In defense of the disciples,
Speaker 1: they did not know where this was all heading. In
Speaker 1: defense of the Disciples, they had more faith than most
Speaker 1: of us will ever demonstrate by leaving their trained, chosen
Speaker 1: vocations in order to follow someone whose life would meet
Speaker 1: a violent end. At the same time that I commend
Speaker 1: them for their courage, I would like to go on
Speaker 1: record as saying that there is nothing obvious in the
Speaker 1: scriptures that makes me think that the disciples were particularly perceptive.
Speaker 1: What I'm trying to say is I don't think the
Speaker 1: Disciples were all that deep. Not saying they were dumb,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't exactly characterize them as deep either. To
Speaker 1: give you one example of how they tended to be
Speaker 1: a little less than deep. Not saying they're stupid, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they're shallow. I'm just saying that a lot
Speaker 1: of times, if you read the scriptures, Jesus seemed to
Speaker 1: be operating on one level and they were operating on another.
Speaker 1: And they were trying to catch up with them pretty
Speaker 1: much all the way to the cross, where they were
Speaker 1: surprised that he died after he told them that's a
Speaker 1: good example. He tells them one day he's like, I
Speaker 1: got to go to Jerusalem and die. So they walk
Speaker 1: a little down the road. He turns around and finds
Speaker 1: him talking, and he asked, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: And they said, we were just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: who gets to sit on your right hand when you
Speaker 1: enter into your kingdom. So they weren't very deep fighting
Speaker 1: over pauseosician and status and stuff like that. I was
Speaker 1: just studying this one this week too. Jesus said, be
Speaker 1: careful of the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees inherd.
Speaker 1: And he was talking about the things you let in
Speaker 1: your heart that take over and needing to see a
Speaker 1: sign versus just believing in God with that childlike faith.
Speaker 1: And so he said, be careful of the yeast. And
Speaker 1: they looked at each other and said, it's because you
Speaker 1: forgot to pack bread not that deep. Even in this
Speaker 1: passage that we just read is striking to me and
Speaker 1: maybe not to you, but it's striking to me. The
Speaker 1: detail that while he is changing a lady's life, all
Speaker 1: they can think about is lunch. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that they're bad. I'm not saying that they should have
Speaker 1: been fasting. I'm not really even saying that I would
Speaker 1: have done any better, because after I ap preached to
Speaker 1: you all to eat lunch too, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: try to get somebody saved a Chipotle after I've preached.
Speaker 1: I'm going home to eat. That's all I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm appreciate you, I'm go home and eat. So I'm
Speaker 1: not criticizing the disciple. I'm just taking a moment to
Speaker 1: pause and say that in the scriptures, a lot of
Speaker 1: times Jesus was thinking a little bit deeper than the disciples.
Speaker 1: And I bring that up to ask the question, is
Speaker 1: Jesus thinking a little bit more deeply about your situation
Speaker 1: then you are thinking about your situation in this moment,
Speaker 1: and does he see it like you see it? Does
Speaker 1: he see it like you see it? With my kids,
Speaker 1: I have to be okay with the fact that my
Speaker 1: disciples Abdy, Graham and Elijah. All right, I don't have twelve.
Speaker 1: Three is enough for me. I don't know how he
Speaker 1: put up with twelve. He had twelve. These little children
Speaker 1: run around. I'll sit on the right hand. You didn't
Speaker 1: bring the bread. You know, what would you do if
Speaker 1: you had twelve of those? I have three, and I
Speaker 1: love them deeply, but they frustrate me greatly. Now, one
Speaker 1: thing I learned any we all got little kids. Look kids,
Speaker 1: Look kids. When they get a little older, they will
Speaker 1: pick on you and they'll start making fun of you.
Speaker 1: And it is completely normal to the developmental task of
Speaker 1: the child to start making fun of dad, because that's
Speaker 1: how the child differentiates and individuates. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's a word or not. I just went with it.
Speaker 1: Made me sound deep. Individuate. Got to individuate so you
Speaker 1: can matriculate. Pontificate. Was I saying, Oh, how my kids
Speaker 1: they love me? Listen, we have a home of respect.
Speaker 1: Sometimes in trying to do humor, I don't want to
Speaker 1: give you the wrong example. Our home is very respectful,
Speaker 1: very loving, very warm, and they love me. I think
Speaker 1: they looked up to me. I think they think I'm
Speaker 1: the best day that they did ever have. They say
Speaker 1: that on Father's Day, but on many occasions, the only
Speaker 1: time they get along is when they band together to
Speaker 1: beat up on me. And I'm cool with that because
Speaker 1: I'm christ Like and if I have to hang here
Speaker 1: on this cross to unify these three kids that are
Speaker 1: fighting all the time, so y'all can make fun of
Speaker 1: how old I am. I'm not ashamed of age, by
Speaker 1: the way. Okay, so oh you're getting old? Old is
Speaker 1: the goal. I didn't die, What did you do? Old
Speaker 1: is the goal. Let's make a T shirt or a
Speaker 1: fanny pack or something that says old is the goal.
Speaker 1: Wear it with pride. Yeah. Yeah, but they make fun
Speaker 1: of me. Classic Dad, They say, classic Dad, just like
Speaker 1: Dad to say that. Did you hear Dad saying that
Speaker 1: they make fun of me? This summer on vacation. You
Speaker 1: know so many wonderful memories that I can tell you about.
Speaker 1: Let me talking about this one. Every time they wanted
Speaker 1: to go swim in the ocean, I went. Holly didn't go.
Speaker 1: I went, just pointing out she is not always the
Speaker 1: more perfect parent. But guess what, because I went in
Speaker 1: the ocean, I was subject to their mockery. Here's what
Speaker 1: kept happening every time we go out. Every time we
Speaker 1: go out, every time we go out to the ocean.
Speaker 1: Within ten minutes, I'd be saying, come back in. You're
Speaker 1: too far out, you're too far out, Come back in,
Speaker 1: classic Dad. They're rolling their eyes, Dad, come on, calm down.
Speaker 1: Abby is hanging on my back, and I'm telling Elijah
Speaker 1: and Graham come back in. You're too far out. There's
Speaker 1: an undercurrent. There's nobody else out here but us. That
Speaker 1: means we're not very smart. This is not a good
Speaker 1: time to swim in the ocean. Come back in. I
Speaker 1: can't see you out there. I know you can swim.
Speaker 1: I know you're taller than me, but i'm your dad.
Speaker 1: Come back in. That's too far out. Come back in.
Speaker 1: And Abby's hanging on my back and she says, Dad,
Speaker 1: calm down, it's not that deep. So I put her down.
Speaker 1: And after she thrashed around for a minute because she's
Speaker 1: not on my back anymore. Standing on the solid rock,
Speaker 1: you know, how we get air again. We think we're
Speaker 1: so great and so good and we could do it,
Speaker 1: but really it's what we're standing on. And when I
Speaker 1: put her down, when I put her down. She thrashed
Speaker 1: around a little bit, and I said, it's deeper. Then
Speaker 1: you think it's deeper, then you think. The disciples found
Speaker 1: out how deep it was when Jesus left to be
Speaker 1: in heaven and they had to do the things that
Speaker 1: they had seen him do without him there to correct
Speaker 1: them when they messed it up. Now, Peter, if you
Speaker 1: cut off an ear, it stays off. Jesus isn't around
Speaker 1: to put it back on. One time they went to
Speaker 1: go cast out demons. They'd seen Jesus cast out demons.
Speaker 1: They went to cast out demons and they couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: They came back and said, why can't we do it?
Speaker 1: We saw you do it, He said, This kind comes
Speaker 1: out only by prayer and fasting. You thought it was
Speaker 1: the motions you watched how I put my hand, or
Speaker 1: you listen to what I said, or maybe you copied
Speaker 1: my voice inflection. It's not at that level. It's deeper
Speaker 1: than you think. We just read a text that seems
Speaker 1: to be about forty verses on something as simple as
Speaker 1: a beverage service. Forty verses on something that happens every
Speaker 1: day when you go to a rest or. Right when
Speaker 1: you go to your fridge forty verses. Now, why I
Speaker 1: love to revisit old scriptures isn't because I want a
Speaker 1: week off from studying. It's because the same thing that
Speaker 1: we do in our lives we often do with the
Speaker 1: Word of God. We skim. We skim, We skim, we scroll,
Speaker 1: We skim and we scroll. We don't really know anybody,
Speaker 1: We just skim and we scroll. We don't really read
Speaker 1: any news stories. We skim the headlines and we scroll
Speaker 1: to the next one. So we develop entire ideologies and
Speaker 1: belief systems on what happened and judgments on people because
Speaker 1: we skim and we scroll, like the Pharisees. By the way,
Speaker 1: in the first few verses I read, they heard Jesus's
Speaker 1: baptize and more disciple more with people than John the Baptist,
Speaker 1: And Jesus wasn't even the one person doing to baptism.
Speaker 1: But since when did the truth get in way of
Speaker 1: a fun rumor? They start talking, they start moving, and
Speaker 1: Jesus goes to Samaria. Now, this passage, on one hand,
Speaker 1: is a geographical description of how Jesus traveled to Galilee,
Speaker 1: where he based his ministry, But it's deeper than you think.
Speaker 1: For instance, did you know that most Jews, instead of
Speaker 1: going straight through Samaria if they were going to Galilee,
Speaker 1: would go around Samaria and it took twice as long.
Speaker 1: But they didn't go through Samaria because they the Bible
Speaker 1: even said it did not like or associate with the Samaritans.
Speaker 1: And you read that and you think, well, that's wrong.
Speaker 1: That sounds like they're bigots. That sounds like they're racist,
Speaker 1: that sounds like their religious classes, that sounds like they
Speaker 1: have an issue, and they do. But to really understand
Speaker 1: even the depth of why they walked around Samaria instead
Speaker 1: of going through it, you'd have to break it down
Speaker 1: and go all the way back to seven hundred BC,
Speaker 1: so this is seven centuries before Jesus showed up to
Speaker 1: talk to this woman and understand how the religious environment
Speaker 1: of Samaria had been populated with those who did not
Speaker 1: worship the True God. And so when they were taken
Speaker 1: out of Samaria, which was the Northern kingdom, that was
Speaker 1: a divided kingdom, Israel was a divided kingdom, and the
Speaker 1: division ran deep because the moment they were taken out
Speaker 1: of their homeland, some other people were brought in, and
Speaker 1: when they came back, they started marrying and mixing, and
Speaker 1: so many of the people who were in Samaria worshiped
Speaker 1: other gods. So when the Jews didn't want to associate
Speaker 1: with the Samaritans, it was because they didn't want to
Speaker 1: get dragged down by the customs of the Samaritans, not
Speaker 1: because they were so dysfunctional in their heart that they
Speaker 1: didn't like them. And now you begin to see through
Speaker 1: the eyes of the Jewish people why they avoided that
Speaker 1: certain place called Samaria, And you begin to understand why
Speaker 1: in your life you avoid certain things as well. Why
Speaker 1: don't you finish things, Why don't you start new things?
Speaker 1: Why won't you love again? Why won't you trust again?
Speaker 1: Why can't you express yourself? Why don't you come to church?
Speaker 1: It's deeper than it seems, and it's deeper than you
Speaker 1: even think. Be very careful about your rush to judgment
Speaker 1: concerning someone whose journey you have not shared. Be very careful.
Speaker 1: God hates divorce. Be very careful hiding something that resembles
Speaker 1: more the kind of bigotry that the Pharisees were known for,
Speaker 1: underneath what sounds spiritual from a situation that has already
Speaker 1: broken the heart of the person whose wounds you were
Speaker 1: pouring salt into I think I lost eighty seven percent
Speaker 1: of the church. Next week would be a good week
Speaker 1: to come be plenty of seats. This preaching is not
Speaker 1: a crowd building preaching. No no, no, no, no, stay
Speaker 1: up abstract here, pastor talking to us about heaven when
Speaker 1: we die in streets of gold and mentions of glory.
Speaker 1: Don't talk to me about my attitude. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about my attitude. I know I got a bad attitude,
Speaker 1: but I love the Lord. I'm not happy, but I
Speaker 1: got joy. I said that last week. That's a Christian saying,
Speaker 1: we're not happy, but we got joy. Praise God said
Speaker 1: with the meanest, ugliest look on your face you ever
Speaker 1: saw in your life. That's the Christian equivalent of I
Speaker 1: don't like you, but I love you. That's the Christian
Speaker 1: equivalent of that. You know, I don't like you, but
Speaker 1: I love you with the love of the Lord. I'm
Speaker 1: not happy, I'm miserable. I'm terrible to be around. But
Speaker 1: I'm going to Heaven when I die. I hope not
Speaker 1: because I was going to go too, and I don't
Speaker 1: really want to be around you there too, for all
Speaker 1: of eternity, for ten thousand years bright shining is the sun.
Speaker 1: So in this passage, one of the things that I
Speaker 1: want you to see is not only the fact that
Speaker 1: Jesus went through through Samaria when he didn't have to
Speaker 1: and most people didn't, but that he did not explain
Speaker 1: to his disciples his reason for doing so. He let
Speaker 1: them go get lunch and explained it later. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is one of my definitions of peace, letting God explain
Speaker 1: it later. So as I'm going through an experience in life,
Speaker 1: trusting God enough to let him explain later. It takes
Speaker 1: no faith to move on an explanation. It takes all
Speaker 1: the faith in the world to do what the disciples
Speaker 1: did and go get lunch. While Jesus talks to a
Speaker 1: lady that he has no business talking to in at
Speaker 1: least three categories, I will listen them for you. She
Speaker 1: is a she, he is he this he is a rabbi,
Speaker 1: and rabbis are not permitted to talk to women in public.
Speaker 1: Strike one, Jesus, she is a Samaritan. He is a Jew.
Speaker 1: I already told you right there in plain sight in
Speaker 1: the text that Jus and Samaritans have no dealing. That's
Speaker 1: number two. Number three, as we found out in the
Speaker 1: text she has a questionable at best reputation. He is
Speaker 1: the holy, spotless Lamb of God and he's not even married.
Speaker 1: Jesus didn't have kids. How could he have kids when
Speaker 1: he had to put up with Peter? He had no
Speaker 1: more room for anybody to look after and straighten up after.
Speaker 1: Jesus is talking to someone he has no business talking
Speaker 1: to in a place that is a place that he
Speaker 1: has no business going. And it's deeper than you think.
Speaker 1: Say that out loud, it's deeper than you think. Pulse check,
Speaker 1: look at your neighbors. Say it's deeper, all right. So,
Speaker 1: so Jesus is sitting by a well talking to a woman,
Speaker 1: and the disciples don't know why she's sitting by a
Speaker 1: well talking to a woman. Disciples don't know why he's
Speaker 1: sitting by a well talking to a woman. The disciples
Speaker 1: don't know why got it? And everything in the text
Speaker 1: is something you can see. You can see the woman,
Speaker 1: You can see the well. You can see the woman
Speaker 1: the well. You can see the woman's jar that she's
Speaker 1: going to get the water from. You can't see Jesus
Speaker 1: jar because he doesn't have one, because she is one.
Speaker 1: But she doesn't know that yet. I'm telling you the
Speaker 1: Bible's deeper. And you think you know I said it
Speaker 1: happened at noon. Did you see that? You probably need
Speaker 1: to pay attention to that. I said, its noon, it's
Speaker 1: the sixth hour, and she's coming out there at noon.
Speaker 1: Why at noon, that's the hottest time you could have.
Speaker 1: If you have to work hard to get this water
Speaker 1: and carry it, the worst time you can do it
Speaker 1: is in the heat of the day. And this is
Speaker 1: not exactly a friendly climate. You know, where the Bible happened.
Speaker 1: It gets some pretty some pretty hot conditions. Something in
Speaker 1: her life which we find out, is that she's been
Speaker 1: from man to man to man to man to man,
Speaker 1: either passed around like an object or because of some
Speaker 1: choice of her own. We don't know. But she's there
Speaker 1: in the heat of the day to avoid the melting,
Speaker 1: penetrating gaze of others who would speak of her as
Speaker 1: she did it. It's deeper than you think when you
Speaker 1: do things, why you do things, It's deeper than you think.
Speaker 1: There's a reason she's there at noon. There's a reason
Speaker 1: you do it at noon. Is deeper than you think.
Speaker 1: What time did Jesus die on the Cross. Go study
Speaker 1: your scripture. You'll find out he died about the sixth hour,
Speaker 1: which is at noon. Is it a coincidence that she
Speaker 1: came to get her water out of her shame at
Speaker 1: the same time that he would later die for her
Speaker 1: shame to take it away? Or is John pointing to something.
Speaker 1: John's gospel is amazing, y'all, because he has these signs.
Speaker 1: He gives these signs to prove that Jesus is who
Speaker 1: he says he is. And so all of the signs
Speaker 1: in John's Gospel are pointing not to the miracle themselves,
Speaker 1: but to the One, the Man, the God, the Spirit,
Speaker 1: who created all things that are seen. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I love it. I
Speaker 1: love it. It's deeper than you think, y'all. Slow down,
Speaker 1: stop reading your Bible so fast, and stop skimming it.
Speaker 1: And every once in a while, just sit like Jesus
Speaker 1: did at the will just sit wonder why at noon?
Speaker 1: I wonder why it happened at noon? I wonder why
Speaker 1: John took the time to stop by and say it
Speaker 1: happened at noon. We don't really need a chronological journey
Speaker 1: of every journal of everything that happened on the journey.
Speaker 1: Just get to the point. He said, No, you need
Speaker 1: to know us at noon, because you need to know
Speaker 1: that this woman was ashamed, because you might feel ashamed
Speaker 1: of some things that happened in your life, either things
Speaker 1: you did or things others did. But you need to
Speaker 1: know that at noon one Friday, that there is a
Speaker 1: man who hung on a cross and they stretched him
Speaker 1: wide and hung him high, but he didn't stay where
Speaker 1: they put him, And you're not staying where they put you.
Speaker 1: And you will not die in this situation because he lives.
Speaker 1: I get faced tomorrow. Stuff like that. You need to
Speaker 1: know is fever than you think. I'll try this out
Speaker 1: next time you're judging somebody. Just say it's deeper than
Speaker 1: I think. It's deeper than I think, or else you'll
Speaker 1: get into this thing of behavior modification. Why didn't Jesus
Speaker 1: tell this woman to stop having so many different men
Speaker 1: before he told her he would give her living water.
Speaker 1: Why didn't he say, go fix these issues and I'll
Speaker 1: give you this resource. Why didn't Jesus give this woman
Speaker 1: a list of things she could do so she wouldn't
Speaker 1: have to keep going to these bad relationships over and over.
Speaker 1: At the very least she doesn't know how to select
Speaker 1: the right man at the very least, and why didn't
Speaker 1: he fix that? That's exactly how we think, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is my sermon. You like a sermon in a sentence.
Speaker 1: This is it right here. We solve it on the
Speaker 1: level we see it. We saw it on the level
Speaker 1: we see it. And that's why I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to you about happiness. Because you can see the well,
Speaker 1: you can see the woman, but what you can't see
Speaker 1: is what is happening within that Jesus points to and says,
Speaker 1: I want to fix that. I want to work on that.
Speaker 1: And until you understand this principle in scripture, you will
Speaker 1: slap a religious label on behavior modification methods that will
Speaker 1: keep you coming back to the wrong well to be happy.
Speaker 1: I hope you like to hear me preach, but I
Speaker 1: don't want for you to need me to preach. I
Speaker 1: don't want you to need me to preach. What if
Speaker 1: I decide to go? What if I decide to go? Uh?
Speaker 1: What if I decide to go be a construction worker? Huh?
Speaker 1: What you gonna do? Then? What if all decide we
Speaker 1: need to hike the Appalachian Trail for nine months. I'm
Speaker 1: for nine months. What you're gonna do, You're just gonna
Speaker 1: fight the devil for nine months. I don't want you
Speaker 1: to need an external voice to experience an inward transformation. Now,
Speaker 1: this part of my sermon is really bad for job
Speaker 1: security because I'm telling you this that you have within you.
Speaker 1: I don't think you understand what you have within you
Speaker 1: because everything I'm seeing people do to try to get
Speaker 1: happy these days is an outside thing. But it's an
Speaker 1: inside job. But you do an outside stuff because you
Speaker 1: keep trying to solve it on the level that you
Speaker 1: see it. So you see people who look happy, you
Speaker 1: see people who look people who look ecstatic, people who
Speaker 1: look successful, people who look like they got it all together.
Speaker 1: And so since you see the objects that they post
Speaker 1: to give the illusion of success, I think they're compensating
Speaker 1: because I think if you really possess it, you don't
Speaker 1: even need the post it. That's what I think. That's
Speaker 1: what I think. I think the ladies don't protest too much.
Speaker 1: That's what I think. That's what I think. That's what
Speaker 1: I think. But it's deeper than I think, because we
Speaker 1: don't really see what they struggle with. Wen't really see
Speaker 1: what they struggle with. So you try to fix what
Speaker 1: you see, but you don't really understand what you're struggling with,
Speaker 1: what they're struggling with. All right, Stop having arguments. Married people,
Speaker 1: Wave at me, Wave at me like it was the
Speaker 1: best decision of your life you made when you said
Speaker 1: I did. Oh wasn't it. Now? Teach you something real quick,
Speaker 1: anybody newly married like just I mean, just still got
Speaker 1: the plastic wrap on the thing. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: don't even know if this, where's does this go? You know,
Speaker 1: still figuring out. Look at her. I'ma do you a quick,
Speaker 1: quick favor, all right, send me a little gift card
Speaker 1: or something after this, because it's really good. You pay
Speaker 1: a lot of therapy bills over this when I'm about
Speaker 1: to give you. She's deeper than you think. Don't get
Speaker 1: boring and stop being curious about who she really is
Speaker 1: because you haven't really even met her yet. You got it.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Oh hey, and and you daughter of God.
Speaker 1: Look look at him real quick, just look in his eyes,
Speaker 1: looked deep in his eyes. At times in the coming years,
Speaker 1: if he's sitting there with a blank look on his face,
Speaker 1: you know, just drooling and you're like, what is he thinking?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, absolutely nothing. No, no, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: that's that's the stereotype. Oh, the women are complicated, the
Speaker 1: men are simple. Men are not simple. He's way deeper
Speaker 1: than you think. So if you see a man struggle
Speaker 1: with anger, you will just label at his rage. What
Speaker 1: if he's really afraid? What if he's really afraid? Me
Speaker 1: and mom were talking about something that that my dad
Speaker 1: did the other day one time when he freaked out,
Speaker 1: and we were laughing because then it started. We started
Speaker 1: listening all the times he freaked out, classic dad, and
Speaker 1: we were bonding over laughing at him. And he's in
Speaker 1: heaven now, so it doesn't hurt him. You know, he's
Speaker 1: way less dysfunctional than us down here now, so we
Speaker 1: say whatever you want about him. He's got his wings
Speaker 1: and stuff, but down here you didn't have any wings.
Speaker 1: Down here, he would freak out. And she looked at
Speaker 1: me and said something that I thought was so profound.
Speaker 1: She said, I think anytime somebody made feel stupid, I
Speaker 1: think a lot of the stuff that he did that
Speaker 1: we categorized as him being hateful, was him feeling like
Speaker 1: at the core that he was made to feel stupid,
Speaker 1: which would make total sense since he didn't have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to even finish to eighth grade, because he would
Speaker 1: go through his life feeling like everybody knew something he
Speaker 1: didn't know. So anytime now he gets an indication that
Speaker 1: you know something I don't know, I feel weak. So
Speaker 1: since I feel weak, I gotta act strong. Arrogant people
Speaker 1: are the most insecure people. Strong people and whole people
Speaker 1: are humble people. They can receive feedback. You see in
Speaker 1: the text in John chapter four, how the Samaritan woman
Speaker 1: is so defensive. Why can I get a drink? You
Speaker 1: don't even have a joink? Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
Speaker 1: whoa whoa whoa whoa, Just trying to make conversation, lady,
Speaker 1: I am a rabbi. Man Nicodemus just came to see
Speaker 1: this guy at night. In John three, now he's having
Speaker 1: to deal with a woman who he's not even supposed
Speaker 1: to be talking to, and in their eyes, she's not
Speaker 1: worthy to talk to him, and he's having to put
Speaker 1: up with this, but he keeps talking to her. He
Speaker 1: keeps talking to her, and and and for years I
Speaker 1: read this text, I thought that Jesus was discussing or
Speaker 1: debating with the woman, but he wasn't. It wasn't a debate.
Speaker 1: He wasn't discussing, He wasn't debating. He was digging, digging, digging.
Speaker 1: Will you give me a drink? He's not supposed to
Speaker 1: have anything to do with me. We don't even like y'all.
Speaker 1: I understand all that. I understand that. I understand that
Speaker 1: you're suspicious based on your history. I understand all that.
Speaker 1: But keep going. Will you give me a drink? And
Speaker 1: remember all of this is happening, y'all. If you really
Speaker 1: love the Bible, check this out at Jacob's well that
Speaker 1: he gave Joseph, which is amazing because you know, Joseph
Speaker 1: was thrown in a well at one time in his
Speaker 1: life by his brothers who left him there to die
Speaker 1: and then sold him into slavery. And then at the
Speaker 1: end of his life, his father Jacob said, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you one more ridge of land, and I
Speaker 1: gave your brothers in Genesis forty eight. And in that
Speaker 1: ridge of land is right where Jesus showed up hundreds
Speaker 1: of years later. And it says that the well that
Speaker 1: Jacob gave Joseph was there isn't that awesome. This has
Speaker 1: been happening for a long time. Jesus didn't just set
Speaker 1: up this the night before, think I'll stop by Samaria
Speaker 1: and talk to the woman. He was thinking about this
Speaker 1: woman from the very moment that that Joseph was getting
Speaker 1: blessed with a well from his father. And you've got
Speaker 1: to know in your life that God has been busy
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. God is not surprised by this season
Speaker 1: of your life. God did not even randomly let you
Speaker 1: click on this sermon. You did not choose this sermon,
Speaker 1: and neither did the algorithm. God took the algorithm. He said,
Speaker 1: I need them to watch a sermon three months ago
Speaker 1: so that when they open their YouTube on Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: there will be in their algorithm a word that they
Speaker 1: need to adjust their direction so that their life can
Speaker 1: be on course. What kind of joy would you have
Speaker 1: and peace would you experience if you internalize the truth
Speaker 1: that God has been busy all along, and on the
Speaker 1: surface your life seems absolutely ridiculous, And on the surface,
Speaker 1: your situation is very scary, and you look like someone
Speaker 1: who is just going out to get water. You look
Speaker 1: like someone who just came to church with your mom
Speaker 1: You look like someone who just came today, because that's
Speaker 1: what we do, and that's on the surface. But it's
Speaker 1: deeper than you think. Is steeper than you think. God
Speaker 1: brought you here in this moment in time to remind
Speaker 1: you that there is a well on your land. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, don't want to point something out
Speaker 1: to you. The land belonged to Joseph, so the spring
Speaker 1: under it did too. The land belonged to Joseph, so
Speaker 1: the spring under it did too. Jacob paid one hundred
Speaker 1: pieces of silver for that land, and underneath the land
Speaker 1: was a spring. And underneath the spring, when the spring
Speaker 1: came up through a well, it was able to refresh
Speaker 1: and restore. God sent me to tell you that when
Speaker 1: Jesus paid for your salvation, you don't just get the field.
Speaker 1: You get the spring too. He didn't just die so
Speaker 1: you could go to heaven one day. You get what's
Speaker 1: under it too. When he claimed this is mine and
Speaker 1: took your life. He didn't just come to give you
Speaker 1: a ticket to heaven. He came to give you bread
Speaker 1: at the presence of you, and green grass in the valley,
Speaker 1: and joy unspeakable and full of glory. I don't just
Speaker 1: want the land. I don't just want to happen. I
Speaker 1: don't just want salvation. When I get there, I'd leave
Speaker 1: Jesus right now, living water, living water, springs, living water.
Speaker 1: So not just the land, but the spring is yours.
Speaker 1: And God is saying, I don't just want the external
Speaker 1: parts of you. I don't just want your behavior to
Speaker 1: get better. I want what's inside. Jesus died for what
Speaker 1: is inside. That's the gospel that if you believe in
Speaker 1: his name, that from within you, somebody say within, just
Speaker 1: get that word right there in your spirit within within
Speaker 1: you think if you get a better well, you'll be happy.
Speaker 1: Or like the woman you don't even have a jar.
Speaker 1: See how fixated we are and what we can see,
Speaker 1: and the level you see it determines the level you
Speaker 1: solve it. That's why you keep clicking on all the
Speaker 1: videos that tell you how to be happy by eating
Speaker 1: more pizza and doing less cardio, because it's clickbait. Because
Speaker 1: that's the world. Keep you coming back when you get
Speaker 1: thirsty again, you hear me, so we keep clicking on stuff,
Speaker 1: trying stuff. How many y'all did at least three diets
Speaker 1: already this year and it's not even November yet. It's
Speaker 1: all right. I've done it too, because the next thing
Speaker 1: is gonna fix it. The next thing. Oh, it's my macros.
Speaker 1: Oh it's my micros. Oh you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You can count all of that that you want on
Speaker 1: the outside, and it's wonderful, and all of this thing
Speaker 1: is wonderful, and all of that stuff is great, But
Speaker 1: have you ever stopped to wonder what's under it? Are
Speaker 1: you running around like me last week with a plunger.
Speaker 1: That's the story I told last week. Every deep thing
Speaker 1: I said in the sermon, the only thing I heard
Speaker 1: anything about was that was funny when you yelled at
Speaker 1: your kids about the toilet. Because I told this story,
Speaker 1: it was embarrassing, and I'm still embarrassed by it. But
Speaker 1: after plunging this toilet and yelling at the kids who
Speaker 1: did this in the toilet and left it and shut
Speaker 1: the lid, and after trying to fix it and I
Speaker 1: couldn't fix it, I found out that it wasn't their
Speaker 1: fault and it wasn't the toilet's fault, and that the
Speaker 1: pump was broken, and the only way for me to
Speaker 1: fix the situation was to deal with it at the
Speaker 1: level that I couldn't see it, so that means I
Speaker 1: could have taken their phone for a week. You shouldn't
Speaker 1: have done that in that toilet. That is unlawful for
Speaker 1: a man to do in that toilet. And then you
Speaker 1: at least should have told me that it didn't flush,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that it was backed up some somewhere else.
Speaker 1: You can yell, you can scream, you can fight, you
Speaker 1: can buy, you can try, you can cry, you can
Speaker 1: do all of it that you want to. But you're
Speaker 1: gonna keep coming back and keep getting thirsty. Yeah, she said,
Speaker 1: I got five men that I tried, still thirsty, and
Speaker 1: the one I'm with now I'm not sure about. And
Speaker 1: Jesus is like good because now you've probably given up
Speaker 1: on the idea that you will be happy when you
Speaker 1: have someone. Maybe now you're ready to admit is deeper
Speaker 1: than you think. I can't figure this out on my own.
Speaker 1: I can't structure my way into this. Structure is awesome.
Speaker 1: I can't schedule my way into this. Scheduling is awesome.
Speaker 1: I can't shop my way into this. Shopping is awesome.
Speaker 1: Waiting for Holly to say, amen, don't be a hypocrite. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, there's just stuff at my door every day.
Speaker 1: But that's not what makes Holly happy. That's not what's
Speaker 1: going to make you happy, not in a way that's
Speaker 1: going to be lasting. It's deeper than you thought. Now,
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not that deep. Not everything is so deep,
Speaker 1: not everything as deep as you make it. Man, I
Speaker 1: feel like the devil is fighting me with the spirit
Speaker 1: of exhaustion. That you stayed up till four am. Wa'ts
Speaker 1: your Netflix, that's the spirit of Netflix. Those are different, right,
Speaker 1: you know that? Oh no, man, I'm just anxious all
Speaker 1: the time. But I guess seven cups of coffee before
Speaker 1: seven thirty am is not the best way to fight anxiety.
Speaker 1: I cancel the spirit of caffeine in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: I break every yoke of caffeine in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: But you drink it. You can't be delivered from it
Speaker 1: if you just keep drinking it. And I'm preaching to
Speaker 1: myself because sometimes I'm like, God, I'm so anxious. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to do. I feel like the devil's
Speaker 1: just coming at me. It's like, it's not the devil
Speaker 1: is diet coke and I do not need any comments
Speaker 1: about aspartame and how I'm gonna die. I'm going to
Speaker 1: heaven when I die, and I'm ready to see Jesus
Speaker 1: at any time. And I enjoyed the delicious taste of
Speaker 1: diet coke and it's deeper than you think, and I
Speaker 1: like it. I like it. Classic Dad, Calm down, we're
Speaker 1: swimming fine, Calm down. What's the big deal? Calm down, preacher.
Speaker 1: You're up here yelling and shouting and screaming and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. It doesn't take all that. We won't need
Speaker 1: all that, not that deep. Okay, Ibby, you touch life
Speaker 1: will eventually put you in a situation where you will,
Speaker 1: from that point forward know your need for something to
Speaker 1: stand on. These waters are deeper than you think. I
Speaker 1: was processing with a young man the other day said,
Speaker 1: I don't get depressed people. Why would you want to
Speaker 1: be depressed? As if depression was a desire. It's a disease.
Speaker 1: It's a disease. You understand a lot of the mental
Speaker 1: health issues that we're dealing with right now. It is
Speaker 1: not as if these people are selecting. There are behaviors,
Speaker 1: there are inputs, But at the heart of that, can
Speaker 1: we take a moment to try to understand what's really
Speaker 1: going on in their life in your life. While you're
Speaker 1: at it, Would you stop being so hard on yourself.
Speaker 1: You're doing pretty good after all. I think you'll need
Speaker 1: therapy because only three people clap. I think y'all need therapy.
Speaker 1: I can't pay for the whole church to go to therapy, y'all.
Speaker 1: Seventy five seventy five that's a lot of hours. I
Speaker 1: can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to hear me say this from the
Speaker 1: stage because some of you're not gonna let anybody else
Speaker 1: say it to you. You are trying to solve stuff
Speaker 1: at the level you see it, but it's deeper than
Speaker 1: you think, and you can't see anything but the symptom,
Speaker 1: so you keep stuffing the symptoms, numbing the symptoms, shopping
Speaker 1: through the symptoms, screaming in other people because of the symptoms.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, y'all, but sin is deeper than you think.
Speaker 1: You don't preach enough about sin in this church. I
Speaker 1: wish you preach more about sin. Well, I guess you do.
Speaker 1: Is something you're an expert in preach about sin a
Speaker 1: lot of the sermons where I hear that are so
Speaker 1: preaching against sin, they're just skimming it. All they're doing
Speaker 1: is saying, all right, you are commit adultry. Stop that,
Speaker 1: stop committing adultery, when at the heart of me doing this,
Speaker 1: it's something that you haven't taught me to deal with. Stop.
Speaker 1: You know, Like we had the youth services this week
Speaker 1: in the church. It was awesome, and well, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. You kind of wish you could have a
Speaker 1: session with just the fellas so you could do a
Speaker 1: whole thing on porn. Don't look at me. You brought
Speaker 1: your kids in here. There's e kids. You should have
Speaker 1: dropped them off. Hey, it is not my fault. You
Speaker 1: don't trust your kids with our volunteers. They're certified. All right,
Speaker 1: you made that decision. But I wish I could. I
Speaker 1: wish I could do a whole thing with the with
Speaker 1: the boys about porn because I think I have a
Speaker 1: bigger message to give them then, don't we're so surface
Speaker 1: level in church. Sex is dirty and nasty and oh
Speaker 1: and ugly, So save them for your husband, right, huh.
Speaker 1: Nobody taught me that the Holy Spirit would help me
Speaker 1: in my struggle with that. Nobody ever taught me that
Speaker 1: there are patterns I can put in place. Nobody ever
Speaker 1: taught me that I need more than just prayers. I
Speaker 1: need people to help me when I'm weak. Nobody taught
Speaker 1: me that all you want to do is stand over
Speaker 1: defeated people and discourage them even more. But it's deeper
Speaker 1: than you think. Don't be depressed. Sixth fart series starts
Speaker 1: next Sunday, Part one, Doom, Part two B Part three Depressed.
Speaker 1: What's the next three weeks gonna be? I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: that again, louder. What is deeper? He came out there
Speaker 1: noon because she was ashamed, and he died at noon
Speaker 1: because she was ashamed. And he comes to you right
Speaker 1: out in the light to show you what I'm really
Speaker 1: dealing with. He's digging me, digging. Can I have water?
Speaker 1: Why are you asking me for water? Just like a man.
Speaker 1: And he's digging, and he's digging because I know underneath
Speaker 1: this attitude, I know, underneath this sorrow is a deep
Speaker 1: disappointment that what you thought would quench your thirst, but
Speaker 1: what you thought would satisfy your soul did in word,
Speaker 1: that who you thought would never let you down broke
Speaker 1: you in pieces and I know that, he says, and
Speaker 1: I see that, and you keep trying to solve it
Speaker 1: on the level you see it. Now, let's solve it
Speaker 1: on the level that he sees it. It's deeper than
Speaker 1: you think, Abby, That's all I know to tell you.
Speaker 1: I kept telling y'all to come in, not just because
Speaker 1: of what was happening in that moment, but you remember
Speaker 1: at Cinnamon Beach too, summers earlier, on spring break, and
Speaker 1: we're out there and the rip tide comes. You remember
Speaker 1: when y'all start swimming in, And I told you afterwards,
Speaker 1: I think we almost all just died. I was scared.
Speaker 1: I didn't act scared while we were out there. Y'all.
Speaker 1: We were out there on spring break two years before this,
Speaker 1: and I just absolutely lost track of where we were.
Speaker 1: And none of us could touch, not Elijah, not Graham,
Speaker 1: not Abby, not me. Holly's in the house doing a puzzle,
Speaker 1: the smart, happy one, and I got them all in, man,
Speaker 1: But it was a minute where anybody almost ever drowned before,
Speaker 1: anybody ever almost drowned with your three kids out there
Speaker 1: and you can't get them all in. So when I'm
Speaker 1: yelling this summer, I'm remembering that spring break. I'm not
Speaker 1: just yelling because you're too far out there now. I
Speaker 1: still feel in mysels. If I close my eyes, I
Speaker 1: can remember thinking about, Oh God, this is it. And
Speaker 1: sometimes what you're dealing with right now isn't what you're
Speaker 1: dealing with right now. Yeah, it's deeper than you think,
Speaker 1: and Jesus can help you deal with that. He didn't
Speaker 1: tell the woman, I'll meet you in heaven one day.
Speaker 1: He said, go get your husband. She said, i'll have
Speaker 1: a husband. He said, I know you've been with five
Speaker 1: and the when you have now not your husband. She said,
Speaker 1: you're a prophet. She thought he was a prophet because
Speaker 1: he spoke to her past. I think he was a
Speaker 1: prophet because he knew her future. He knows the plans
Speaker 1: he has for you. He knows the plans he has
Speaker 1: for you, and is deeper than you think. He knows
Speaker 1: how he's going to redeem this season in your child's life.
Speaker 1: And what he's doing is deeper than you think. The
Speaker 1: Lord said to me the other day, you need to
Speaker 1: start respecting the roots. All you ever look for in
Speaker 1: life to praise me for is the stuff that you
Speaker 1: can see above the surface. Start praising me more for
Speaker 1: the things I am doing deeper in your life. Start
Speaker 1: praising me more for things I'm teaching you. You hear
Speaker 1: me that you can carry forward. Start praising me more
Speaker 1: for things that I will explain later. So praise God
Speaker 1: now for what he will explain later. That's a faith principle.
Speaker 1: I praise you now, you can explain it later. I
Speaker 1: praise you now. I'll understand it later. I praise you now.
Speaker 1: I'll get it later. I praise you now. It hurts
Speaker 1: right now, but it'll heal me later. I praise you
Speaker 1: now because it's a groundwork. I praise you now because
Speaker 1: it's a foundation. And after all, if God is building
Speaker 1: something awesome in my life, the first thing he will
Speaker 1: do is dig. So that's not the devil, that's Jesus
Speaker 1: digging it out because you got a well on the inside,
Speaker 1: you got something special on the inside, you got something
Speaker 1: awesome on the inside. Somebody shout out loud, I got it,
Speaker 1: high five, somebody say I got it. I got it
Speaker 1: on the inside, I got it on the inside. Don't
Speaker 1: look at my bag. I'm not talking about that. Don't
Speaker 1: look on what's on my back. I'm not talking about that.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about anything you can see. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to solve it at the level people can see it.
Speaker 1: I'm done trying to impressed people. I'm done for us
Speaker 1: smiling through stuff that I need to work through. I'm
Speaker 1: done putting spiritual cliches over things that God wants to
Speaker 1: do a deep work to help me recover from. I
Speaker 1: want this water. Come on, I want this water. I
Speaker 1: want this water, the one that won't make me thirstier.
Speaker 1: I want this water, the one that's not poison. I
Speaker 1: want this water. I want the one that comes from
Speaker 1: you God. I want the real thing. I don't want
Speaker 1: the substitute. I don't want to stand in. I don't
Speaker 1: want the sixth Man. I want the seventh Man. I
Speaker 1: want Jesus hoping. You're not why in a Dylan because
Speaker 1: it's deeper than you think. It's deeper than you think.
Speaker 1: I got bad news. The problem is deeper than you think.
Speaker 1: There's no seven steps to fix it. It's called sin,
Speaker 1: and it's the human condition. It's worse than they told you.
Speaker 1: It's not just get your act together and be happy
Speaker 1: when you do. That's the bad news. The problem is
Speaker 1: deeper than you think. I got good news. So is
Speaker 1: the power. So is the power. If the problem is
Speaker 1: deeper than you think, so is the power. It will
Speaker 1: run out. The patience of God will not run out.
Speaker 1: He'll sit here all day, if that's what it takes.
Speaker 1: He will sit here all day. He will dig all
Speaker 1: day until he uncovers the real you. He will dig
Speaker 1: past layers of pretension. He will dig past every persona.
Speaker 1: He will knock over everything you've propped up to try
Speaker 1: to keep you from being seen. He'll strip away every
Speaker 1: fig leaf. He'll come until that thing in your life
Speaker 1: that was standing up, that was erected as a facade,
Speaker 1: is torn down, and all you have left is faith.
Speaker 1: And what he said to the woman is true for
Speaker 1: you is deeper than you think. It's going to be
Speaker 1: not a well that you can see, It's going to
Speaker 1: be a well from within. I wonder what you've been
Speaker 1: praying for. I wonder what you've been searching for. The
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God is within you. The Spirit of God
Speaker 1: is within you. And just when you think you've reached
Speaker 1: your end, Now, whoever this is for, I knew that
Speaker 1: I needed to say it before I got up and
Speaker 1: would I would not be able to eat my lunch
Speaker 1: without saying this, So you listen. You've been telling God
Speaker 1: how deep the well is. He's trying to show you
Speaker 1: how deep his grace is. There. It is there, it is.
Speaker 1: That's the word. That's the word. The grace is deeper still.
Speaker 1: If the fear runs deep, the faith runs deeper still,
Speaker 1: you see it. If the shame runs deep, the grace
Speaker 1: runs deeper. Still. It's deeper than you think. It's deeper
Speaker 1: than you imagine. According to Him who is able to
Speaker 1: do immeasurably more, it is deeper than you think. Those
Speaker 1: seeds that you're sowing that you don't think anybody notices
Speaker 1: they are going in the soil. Right now, you respect
Speaker 1: that rooting process. You continue to water everything that you've
Speaker 1: planted with your tears, and you trust God to explain
Speaker 1: it later. It is deeper than you think. By the
Speaker 1: time Jesus gets done with this woman, she goes back
Speaker 1: to her village in Samaria, and she brings all the
Speaker 1: men back with her so they can meet Jesus. What
Speaker 1: God is doing in you right now is not about you.
Speaker 1: It's about what God is going to do through you
Speaker 1: in the future. And you need to get off of
Speaker 1: this well today and begin to move in the direction
Speaker 1: of his word for your life. The disappointment runs see,
Speaker 1: but his grace runs deeper by your head. Receive the
Speaker 1: living water today, Oh Father, What a what a truth?
Speaker 1: That is not about which mountain we worship on. It's
Speaker 1: not about what jar we brought. It's about what water
Speaker 1: is on the inside of us. Oh, I bless you
Speaker 1: for showing me that again this week. I needed to
Speaker 1: know it. This week. God, I start thinking, Oh, I
Speaker 1: got to get more money put away, then I'll feel safe.
Speaker 1: Oh I got to get this person straightened out, then
Speaker 1: I'll have peace. Oh I got to get this calm down.
Speaker 1: I just got to make it through this season. I
Speaker 1: got to finish this. And you told me to stop
Speaker 1: and sit by the well and remember what is within me,
Speaker 1: and to call it out of these men and women
Speaker 1: everyone's standing. The spirit of God is in you. Favor,
Speaker 1: the Lord is on you, The hand of the Lord
Speaker 1: is upon you. The promise of God over your life.
Speaker 1: I call it to the surface now in Jesus Nay.
Speaker 1: The problem is deeper than you think. The promise is
Speaker 1: greater than you know. And I'm telling you it's not
Speaker 1: coming one day. Is here right now I'm telling you
Speaker 1: there's a well within you right now. There is a
Speaker 1: well within you. Right now, There is a well well.
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